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May 19, 2022

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Clarence Thomas Has Gone Full Hack
The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions. He’s not interested in hearing any of yours, however.
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Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.
by Tracy Rosenthal
Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.
by Timothy Noah
Global warming is introducing unprecedented risk into the financial system. The Fed has the power to limit that risk. Instead, Jerome Powell is sitting on his hands.
by Aaron Regunberg
The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.
by Alex Shephard
The Big Pharma–friendly congressman from Oregon’s 5th district is lagging Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Tuesday’s primary results. How big a bellwether is it for the left?
by Grace Segers

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